Example sentences of "[verb] by around " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were reports throughout September of violent anti-government protests in North Korea , apparently ignited by the government 's decision in July to reduce the amount of money in circulation and to devalue the won by around 70 per cent . |
| 2 | Moreover , he says that the present level of interest rates may mean that instead of prices stagnating next year they could fall by around 10 per cent . |
| 3 | For 1990 as a whole , GNP rose by around 0.9 per cent , compared with 2.5 per cent in 1989 . |
| 4 | New house prices rose by around 50 per cent in the United Kingdom between early 1972 and early 1973 . |
| 5 | Constitutional change usually came about tenth , nominated by around 12 per cent of the electorate . |
| 6 | World prices for Arabian light grade had dropped by around $4.50 per barrel since October 1991 , to about $18.50 , at a time when the onset of winter in the northern hemisphere would normally have increased demand and thus shored up the price . |
| 7 | Figures for people waiting between one and two years for treatment had also dropped by around 400 to 4,355 in the 12 months to the end of February . |
| 8 | Less than 40% of the country 's £500m annual expenditure is reckoned to be channelled into Scotland 's domestic industry , a proportion that the Forum intends to increase by around 50% . |
| 9 | At this , the author loses in royalties , the publisher 's profit still drops by around 20 per cent — and the customer pays 31 per cent more . |
| 10 | Both players were standing outside the players ' lounge when three men ran past them into the building , for which they are believed to have produced entrance tickets , pursued by around 20 Rangers fans . |
| 11 | On the negative side press reports indicated that the cost of the programme during the first half of 1990 had been a massive rise in unemployment ( from an official 6,000 at the end of 1989 to 568,000 ) ; a 30 per cent fall in output ; a 25 per cent drop in industrial sales in the first quarter ( in comparison with the same period in 1989 ) ; and an estimated 30 per cent drop in living standards , as real incomes slumped by around 35 per cent and 90 per cent of prices were freed ( following the abolition of subsidies ) to find their market level . |
| 12 | Woolfson estimates the League could benefit by around £2 million if Barnet collapse . |
| 13 | About two thirds of the Third World 's $1,000 billion debt was lent by around 550 of the world 's private banks from North America , Japan and Europe between the late 1960s and early 1980s . |
| 14 | The ESPRIT Conference and Exhibition held in Brussels in the week commencing the 12 November was a great success , and was attended by around 2,000 people from all over Europe . |
| 15 | The conference is one of the highlights of the QC year and was attended by around 600 delegates from more than 100 companies from all over the UK . |
| 16 | The conference , at the Waterfoot Hotel , will be attended by around 40 representatives from a wide-range of public and private sector trade unions . |
| 17 | Attended by around 1,500 representatives of parties and movements from 20 countries in both Western and Eastern Europe , the informal debates ( no formal resolutions were adopted ) focused particularly on the issue of European integration . |
| 18 | A rally held on July 25 in Srb to celebrate this statement was attended by around 100,000 Serbs . |
| 19 | Federal Prime Minister Ante Markovic launched his promised new political party , called the Alliance of Reform Forces , at a rally attended by around 100,000 people on July 29 at Kozara in Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 20 | Normally the afternoon meeting at the east Boldon track are attended by around 250 regulars , but with the attraction of a couple of free pints the gate is expected to be much bigger at tomorrow 's meeting , which starts at 2.08 pm . |
| 21 | Bulimia , according to a recent Drug and Therapeutics bulletin from the Consumers ' Association , is suffered by around two percent of young women in Britain . |
| 22 | Despite the successive sterling crises , deflationary fiscal packages and wage restraint , real personal disposable income per head had risen by around 12 per cent from 1964 to 1970 . |
| 23 | The temperature has risen by around one degree centigrade over the last 150 years . |
| 24 | Romanian Orthodoxy was professed by around 85 per cent of Romanian Christians . |
| 25 | On Friday they 'll come out of the garage , to be seen by around 60,000 visitors at the Spring Gardening Show in Malvern . |
| 26 | Supplementing this permanent organisation are 4000 more software engineers and programmers supplied by around 250 subcontractors . |
| 27 | The survey is conducted on an annual basis , with results supplied by around 650 companies in Scotland . |
| 28 | The survey is now conducted on an annual basis , with results based on information supplied by around 650 companies in Scotland . |
| 29 | In 1952 nearly 60 per cent of the production of the ACCs was located there , produced by around 33 per cent of the total number of workers operating over half of the business capital stock . |
| 30 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB says it expects ‘ considerable improvement in profits in 1993 ’ : it expects the strong order intake seen last year to continue despite a recession and notes that orders for Ericsson 's mobile systems , which grew by 58% in 1992 , are expected to grow by around 60% in the current quarter . |